Unique folk song of Ca Dong

Hidden behind high mountains in the immense space of thousands, the folk tunes of the Ca Dong people often evoke familiar images, close to their lifestyle, way of thinking, creating cultural value. sustainable tradition, playing a role of strengthening family, lineage, and village relationships, maintaining discipline and order in Ca Dong community, creating a unified whole.
The beauty of folk songs of Ca Dong
In the folk arts treasure of Ca Dong people, traditional folk tunes are always lyrical, both creative and expressing the sweet, deep, very popular affection that they love. Folk tunes: Raise, lute, plét, hoi cong, goat oê, to the traditional k'cheo melody born from manufacturing labor and in daily life are no exception, showing the feelings of the Ca Dong people praying for favorable rain and wind, good crops to help the villagers to fill their stomachs, to live in harmony with nature and mountains. This is also one of the unique cultural products, preserved and promoted by Ca Dong people. Singing on the farm, singing on buffalo-eating festivals, Tet, weddings, family gatherings, entertainment, entertaining, singing when lulling a baby to sleep,

With folk tunes, Ca Dong people can sing many different content depending on the conditions and content of the activities and they can also improvise their own lyrics, romantic and sweet rhymes. Based on available melody sections.

Unique sound of buffalo injuries
Since ancient times, the Ca Dong people sing k'cheo to express their feelings and feelings for the rain, the wind and the good harvest so that the villagers can fill their stomachs, live in harmony with nature. , mountains. In addition, they often use the melody to sing about the image of the work of the buffalo to help Ca Dong people in labor, production and even before the sacrifice. In that moment, the Ca Dong people started singing folk songs for the buffalo, expressing the love of the Ca Dong people with their beloved animal. This is a humane behavior, and also through which the community apologizes before saying goodbye to the world of the spirit.

Ca Dong's rhythms of love of buffalo are very simple, they are just words that confide in the narrative that people want to express with the buffalo. “Hey buffalo / Today, the family (village) has a job that needs your help / The buffalo has to go, goes back to the spirit / Columns to eat the buffalo / Buffalo to eat grass and rice to be full / I love buffaloes very / If you love the villagers, please tell the god / Bless the villagers health, business, no sickness, disease, ho ... ha ". Whenever the rhythm of the echoes sounded, people just fed the buffaloes with grass and rice.

Singing a guild
If the rhythms of art are the words that confide in a narrative that are improvised, the folk song of the Ca Dong people has the appearance of a love song.

In the afternoons of the sun, the sun set towards the other side of the mountain or on the moonlit nights all over the mountains, and the time when the Dong Ca boy raised the gongs to play when he was as deep as the sound of a great darkness. Pumpkin, when clear, elegant as the sound of streams murmuring where the source. The boy and the girl started singing together. "My beautiful little sister / Who do you miss by the stream / Your feet are beautiful like a golden banana / Your hands are as beautiful as buds of a forest / I watch you without being bored."

With a rustic voice, at times deep, high, when the skin was inviting, the girl who trot fell in love with her could not hide her heart through the very natural mountain and forest space. "I am on a high mountain slope waiting for you to lead me / I am by the large stream of fast flowing water waiting for you to carry me over." Those are words of love that Ca Dong boys and girls gave to each other. And starting from that day, the boy and girl returned to tell their parents that they had found a loved one. From tomorrow, the boy and the girl will go back to the two sides of the family to help with farming, pruning, hunting without being bound by the community.

Ode goat folk songs
Different from the folk song, in order to express the feelings of Ca Dong's daughter when she came to be a bride in another village, they sang a folk song of the goat goat, simile, resounded beautifully. Deêde is a song with a short but clear melody, it can sing alone, it can also sing and answer praising the beautiful scenery of the mountains, Ca Dong people in Tra My. behind there are no brothers / No relatives in the village / While sick, no one to look after ”. Just hearing, the husband of Ca Dong also partly understands the mood of his wife getting married far away, which is the lonely mood of the wife when separating herself from the village, how can not feel helpless "Don't turn your face away / Without you the moon will not shine / No squirrels will look / You should not leave your village and go / Leave your stream no longer flowing / Without you any wind will blow by".

Plet singing
Unlike a folk song of goats, an analogy, plét is a song with a clear melody, but always suitable to the situation. Just now, for some reason, Ca Dong's daughter borrowed the image of a quite unique plet, to express her feelings.

“I live in this area, I will go and arrest my husband in another village / One is to arrest my husband in Tra My / Hai is to arrest my husband in Tra Van / Although my mother has a child, I still release my mother / Even if my father is alone, I still release my father / I have followed my husband in Tra My area and cannot release my husband / I have followed my husband in Tra Van area without my husband / The two children do not leave each other ” And that image, now has become a cultural beauty in the life of the Ca Dong community passed down from generation to generation, which they respect and preserve.